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SOUVENIR PROGRAM 



LINCOLN DAY 

FEBRUARY 12, 19 




ABRAHAM LINCOLN 

There's a name that brings a picture 
Of a man great-souled and grand ; 

One whose deeds on History's pages 
Carved in bold relief shall stand. 

-S. M. BEST. 



Copyright 1910 
By 

S. W. FURST. 



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SouvE-NiR Program 



FOR 



LINCOLN DAY 



AND 



choice: selections for 
the occasion. 



Designed as an Aid to Teachers, Organizations, 

Societies, Etc., for the Observance of Lincoln 

Day, but more especially as a Keepsake for 

the Boys and Girls of America, by means 

of which in their leisure moments at home 

they may study and enjoy some facts 

about "the best loved American." 



Compiled 

BY 

S. W. FURST, 

Author of "Mensuration," "Outlines of Civil Government, 

Etc. 



Published by 
SouYENiR Publishing Company 

WILLIAMSPORT, PENNA 



Suggestive Program for Lincoln Day. 



February 12, 19 


School. 


Ruildirip-. 




. Grade. 


. Singing 

"America,' , or "Battle Hymn of the Republic,' 


. By School 

' or 



"Your Mission [Lincoln's favorite hymn). 

2. Flag Salute, if desired, {in this book) 

By School or by a Class 

3. Quotations — {in this book) 

By a few pupils or by a number 

4. Principles that Made Lincoln Great — {in this book) 

By a f^w pupils or by a number 

5 . Reading — {in this book) Select one or more. 

(a) "Early History of Lincoln." 

(b) "The Bible on the Tongue of Lincoln." 

(c) "Extract from Henry Watterson's Lecture." ■ 

6. "Peculiar Facts about Lincoln" — {in this book) 

By a few pupils or by a number 

7 SiyjP'inP' '^' (•S'/Jec'a/) By soloist or quartette, if desired, or 

' ' -^'''6 '''6 b. A second selection by the school from point 1 . 

8. Address or Paper — {Special) 

If desired, preferably by an "old soldier" 

9 Miscellaneous — {in this book) By one or more pupils 

(fl) "What the Great Say of One Greater." 
lb) "Short Quotations from Lincoln." 
(c) "Lincoln Stories." 

10. Recitation — {in this book). Select one or more. 

(a) "Tribute from an English Writer." 
Cb) "0 Captain! My Captain/" 

(c) "When Lincoln Died." 

(d) "Lincoln" (if not preferred as a song). 

(e) "Gettysburg Address" {in concert if desired). 

(f) " Tribute from Lowell." 

(g) "Tribute from Bryant." 

11. Singing — "Lincoln" {inJhis\book) or another selection 

By 0, s^ew pupils or by a number 

Note to Teachers. — By .selection the above can be 
adapted to all grades. Kor primary grades, select chiefly from 
numbers 1, 2, 3, 6, and 9, and teacher read other parts; for inter- 
mediate grades, add something from numbers 4. 5, and 10; for 
the higher grades select the more advanced matter throughout. 



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Words to Know When Reading About Lincoln 

Do they apply to all great men ? Study thorn : try 
to apply them to Lincoln and his acts. 

Strength mind — heart — will — justice — mercy- logic 
—wisdom — humor — firmness — honesty — simplicity — 
kindness — courtesy - charity naturalness statesman- 
ship—diplomacy — knowledge — diction — oratory — lib- 
erality — sympathy — steadfastness — leadership — brav- 
ery — gentleness — emancipator — martyr — savior ten- 
der-heartedness —patience — poverty— sadnss hard- 
ship — loving — compassion — immortal. 

What the Great Say of One Greater 

His name was as the name of an angel of God. — 

Beecher. 

He was incontestably the.greatest man I ever knew. 

— U.S. Grant. 

In his character Lincoln was through and through 
an American. — -Bancroft. 

Lincoln is the honestest man I ever knew. — Stephen 

A . Douglas. 

He is the most perfect ruler of men the world has 
ever seen. — Edwin M. Stanton. 

He was a man made and moulded by Divine Power 
to save a Nation. — Wm. H. Seward. 

Mr. Lincoln is the only white man with whom I have 
^ver talked, or in whose presence I have ever been, 
who did not consciously or unconsciously betray to me 
that he recognized my color. — -Fred. Douglas. 

He will hold a place in the world's history loftier 
than that of any king or conquerer. — Wm. T. Sherman. 



Short Quotations from Lincoln 

Never regret what you don't write. 
Calling a sheep's tale a leg doesn't make it so. 
When you can't remove an obstacle, plough around it. 
A private soldier has as much right to justice as a 
major-general. 

I am like the boy that stumped his toe : hurt too 
much to laugh and too big to cry. 

For those that like this kind of book, this is the 
kind of book thev will like. 



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Early History of Lincoln 



In speaking of his boyhood Lincoln once re- 
marked : My early history is perfectly characterized 
by a single line of (iray's Elegy : "The short and 
simple annals of the poor." 

At the rec|uest of a friend he wrote the following 
simple sketch of his early life : 

I was born February 12, 1809, in Hardin county, 
Ky. My parents were born in Virginia, of undis- 
tinguishable families — second families perhaps I 
should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, 
was of a family of the name of Hanks, some of whom 
reside in Adams, and others in Macon counties. 111. 

My paternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, 
emigrated from Rockingham count\-, V'a., to Kentucky, 
about 1781 or '82, where a year or two later he was 
killed by Indians, not in battle, but by stealth, when 
he was laboring to open a farm in the forest. His 
ancestors, who were Quakers, went to Virginia from 
Berks county. Pa. An effort to identify them with 
the New England family of the same name ended 
in nothing more than similarity of Christian names 
in both families, such as Enoch, Levi, Mordecai, 
Solomon, Abraham, and the like. 

My father, at the death of his father, was but 
six years of age, and he grew up literally without 
education. He mo\ed from Kentucky to what is 
now Spencer county, Ind., in my eighth year. We 
reached our new home about the time the States 
came into the L^nion. It was a wild region, with 
many bears and other wild animals in the woods. 
There I grew up. There were some schools, so-called, 
but no qualification was ever required of a teacher 
beyond "readin'," "writin'," and "cipherin'," to 
the Rule of Three. If a straggler supposed to under- 
stand Latin happened to sojourn in the neighbor- 
hood he was looked upon as a wizard. There was 



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absolutely nothing to excite aml)ition for educa- 
tion. 

Of course when I came of age I did not know 
much. Scill. somehow, I would read, write, and cipher 
to the Rule of Three, but that was all. I have not 
been to school since. The little advance I now 
have upon this store of education I have picked up 
from time to time under the pressure of necessity. 

I was raised to farm work, which I continued 
till I was twenty-two. At twenty-two I came to 
Illinois, and passed the first year in Macon county. 
Then I got to New Salem, at that time in Sanga- 
mon, now in Menard county, where I remained a 
year as a sort of clerk in a store. Then came the 
Black Hawk war, and I was elected a captain of 
volunteers— a success which gave me more pleasure 
than I have had since. I went through the cam- 
paign, ran for the Legislature the same year (1832), 
and was beaten — the only time I have been beaten 
by the people. The next and three succeeding bi- 
ennial elections I was elected to the Legislature. 
I was not a candidate afterwards. During this Legis- 
lative period I had studied law, and removed to Spring- 
field to practice it. In 1846 I was once elected to 
the Lower House of Congress, but was not a can- 
didate for re-election. From 1849 to 1854, both in- 
clusive, I practiced law more assiduously than ever 
before. Always a Whig in politics, and generally on 
the Whig electoral tickets, making active canvasses, 
I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of 
the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What 
I have done since is pretty well known. 

If any personal description of me is thought de- 
sirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet four 
inches nearly ; lean in flesh, weighing, on an aver- 
age, one hundred and eighty pounds ; dark complex- 
ion, with coarse black hair, and gray eyes. No other 
marks or brands recollected. 

Yours very truly, 

A. Lincoln. 



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Some of the Literary Productions by 
Lincoln and About Him 



The Gettysburg Address. 

The Emancipation Proclamation. 

Parts of the first and second Inaugural Addresses. 

Lincoln's Birthday. — David Suing. 

Abraham Lincoln. — Prof. Goldwin Smith. 

Greatness of His Simplicity. — H. A. Delano. 

Oh Captain ! My Captain ! — Walt Whitman. 

Lincoln, The Tender-Hearted. — H. W. Bolton. 

Majesty in His Individuality. — /. P. Newman. 

His Character and His Destiny..— F. M. Bristol. 
'/^Lincoln as Cavalier and Puritan. — H. W. Grady. 

Lincoln, The Martyr Chief. — James Russell 
Lowell. 

Abraham Lincoln. — Tom Taylor fin London 
Punch). 

The Bible on the Tongue of Lincoln. — The writer, 
the Rev. George T.. Lerrirnon, sh9jvs what a surpris- 
ing number of biblical quotations, illustrations, and 
figures of speech appear in Mr. Lincoln's addresses, 
state papers, and private conversation. The very 
style of the man is marked by the spirit and forms 
of sacred writ. It was Lincoln's study of this liter- 
ature that prepared him to appreciate the age in 
which he lived, and to set forth, as he did, the jus- 
tice, the righteousness of the God he served. It 
was not an accident that he who had to play the 
part of Moses in his deliverance of a race from Egyptian 
bondage had in his boyhood steeped his soul in the 
story of the great Moses of Egypt and Arabia. Mr. 
Lemmon, who attributes Mr. Lincoln's exceptional 
facility and effectiveness in the use of English to his 
familiarity with the English Bible, says: "This is 
the man who, proclaimed a boor by his foes, apolo- 
gized for as a lucky illiterate by many of his friends, 
and even today reckoned by many as sadly deficient 
in culture, in less than three years from that fare- 
well to his neighbors, by a few hours' labor and by 
three minutes' utterance, gave to the world that 
Gettysburg dedication which Emerson, Lowell, and 
Victor Hugo unite in declaring to be one of the three 
masterpieces of human speech in the history of the 
race." 



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LINCOLN'S GETTYSBURG ADDRESS 



(Dedication of the National Cemetery, November 19, 1863.) 

Four score and seven years ago our fathers 
brought forth upon this continent a new nation, con- 
ceived in Hberty and dedicated to the proposition 
that all men are created equal. Now we are en- 
gaged in a great civil war, testing whether that na- 
tion or any nation so conceived and so dedicated 
can long endure. We are met on a great battle- 
field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion 
of that field as a final resting place for those who 
here gave their lives that that nation might live. It 
is altogether fitting and proper that we should do 
this ; but in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we 
cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. 
The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, 
have consecrated it far above our poor power to add 
or detract . The world will little note, nor long re- 
member, what we say here; but it can never forget 
what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather 
to be dedicated to the unfinished work which they 
who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. 
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great 
task remaining before us ; that from these honored 
dead we take increased devotion to that cause for 
which they gave the last full measure of devotion; 
that we here highly resolve that these dead shall 
not have died in vain ; that this nation, under God, 
shall have a new birth of freedom ; and that govern- 
ment of the people, by the people, for the people, 
shall not perish from the earth. 

Let us take him simply as Abraham Lincoln, sin- 
gular and solitary, as we all see that he was ; let us 
be thankful if we can make a niche big enough for 
him among the world's heroes, not worrying our- 
selves about the proportion which it may bear to 
other niches ; and there let him remain forever, 
lonely, as in his strange lifetime, impressive, mys- 
terious, unmeasured. — Morse. 



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Peculiar Facts About Lincoln 



Lincoln was 6 feet 4 inches tall, a fact of which 
he was immensely proud. Washington was 6 feet 2 
inches tall, (jrant 5 feet 10 inches, Napoleon 5 feet 
2 inches. Nelson 5 feet 4 inches. 

He was swarthy as an Indian, with wiry jet black 
hair not easily amenable to the comb. 

His e\es were bright, keen, and a luminous gray 
in color, though his eyebrows were black like his 
hair. 

His face was almost grotesquely rough and square 
— ^lantern-jawed, he called himself. 

During the latter part of his life Lincoln had a 
rough black beard. He said he let it grow to "cover 
up his homely features. " 

His figure was gaunt, slender and slightl>' bent. 

He had very large feet and wore a No. 1 1 boot 
on his left foot and a No. 1 1 ^ on the right foot. 

His laugh was delightful — a big musical tenor. 

His clothes were usually black, always loose- 
fitting, and often in need of pressing. 

When a lawyer in Illinois, Lincoln wore a brown, 
faded hat, with the nap rubbed off. 

For his short cloak he sometimes substituted a 
shawl. 

In traveling he never complained of food, bed, or 
lodging. 

He carried a faded green umbrella, with "A. 
Lincoln" in large white cotton letters sewed on the 
outside. 

He was always bashful with women and never 
particularly cared for their society. 

His kindness was such that he could never refuse 
a polite request — where no principle was involved. 

It was his habit always to read aloud, so that he 
might "remember it better." 

He was not a good listener, but was most at his 
ease when telling his own stories. 

The vein of superstition in him never died out. 
He even related dreams and portents presaging his 
own assassination. 

He loved his children and was idolized by them. 

He was unmethodical and had no love of detail. 



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Quotations on Lincoln 



"A pilot brave. " 

"Single in heart." 

"Without a peer." 

"He was natural." 

"Liberal in speech." 

"Lincoln was not a type." 

"He was patient as destiny," 

"The majesty of moral might." 

"His story halos humble birth." 

"He made it popular to be natural." 

"The honor of a nation's youth, 

"The wit of plain and homely truth." 

"His words were candid as mirrors." 

"His honest face had power to charm." 

"The highest type of manhood's power." 

"He taught the land to watch and wait." 

"A genius stamped with sterling worth." 

"He watched the hour to speak and save." 

"No one had keener wit or kinder humor." 

"He is the gentlest memory of our world." 

"In illustration apt, in application perfect." 

"He was an orator— clear, sincere, natural." 

"He had no ancestors, no fellows, no successors." 

"He knew no fear except the fear of doing wrong. " 

"He was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil 

war. " 

"He had the unconscious naturalness of nature's 

self." 

"He raised his hands not to strike, but in bene- 
diction. " 

"He appeared to apologize for being kinder than 

his fellows." 

"He did merciful things as stealthily as others 

committed crimes," 

"He had that awkwardness that is the perfect 

grace of modesty." 

"Wealth could not purchase, power could not 

awe, this divine, this loving man." 



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A Tribute from an English Writer 

\ ou lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier. 

You, who with mocking pencil, wont to trace, 
Broad for the self-complacent British sneer. 

His length of shambling limb, his furrowed face; 

His gaunt, gnarled hands, his unkempt, bristling hair. 
His garb uncouth, his bearing ill at ease, 

His lack of all we prize as debonair, 
Of power or will to shine, of art to please; 

Beside this corpse, that bears for winding-sheet 
The Stars and Stripes he lived to rear anew. 

Between the mourners at his head and feet, 
Say, scurrile jester, is there room for you ."' 

\'es ; he had lived to shame me from my sneer, 
To lame my pencil, and confute my pen: — 

To make me own this man of princes peer. 
This rail-splitter a true-born king of men. 

My shallow judgment I had learned to rue. 
Noting how to occasion's height he rose; 

How his quaint wit made home-truth seem more true ; 
How, iron-like, his temper grew by blows. 

How humble, yet how hopeful he could be; 

How in good fortune and in ill the same: 
Nor bitter in success, nor boastful he. 

Thirsty for gold, nor feverish for fame. 

He went about his work, — such work as few 

Ever had laid on head and heart and hand, — 
\s one who knows, where there's a task to do, 

Man's honest will must Heaven's good grace com- 
mand. 
So he went forth to battle on the side 

That he felt clear was Liberty's and Right's, 
As in his pleasant boyhood he had plied 

His warfare with rude Nature's thwarting mights. 

So he grew up, a destined work to do 

And he lived to do it — four long-suffering years 

Ill-fate, ill-feeling, ill-report lived through 
And then he heard the hisses change to cheers. 

— Tom Taylor {Mark Lemon) in London Punch. 

Note. — "Tom Taylor" caricatured Lincoln unmercifully in 
London Punch. Lat<-;r, ashamed of his injustice, in penitence 
he published the poem of which the above is an extract. It was 
a manly act, but we fear he carried in memory his soirow to 
the grave. This poem v/as published in London Punch upon 
receipt of the news of his assas.sination. 



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O Captain ! My Captain ! 



O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done, 
The ship has weather'd c\ery rack, the prize we sought 

is won; 
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all ex- 
ulting, 
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and 
daring ; 

But O heart ! heart ! heart ! 
O the bleeding drops of red. 
While on the deck the Captain lies, 
Fallen cold and dead. 

O Captain ! My Captain ! rise up and hear the bells; 
Rise up — for you the flag is hung — for you the bugle 

trills, 
For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths, for you the 

shores a-crowding; 
For you they call — the swaying mass, their eager faces 
turning: 

Here, Captain ! dear father ! 

This arm beneath your head! 
It is some dream that on the deck 
You've fallen cold and dead. 

My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, 
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor 

will, 
The ship is anchor 'd safe and sound, its voyage closed 

and done. 
From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object 
won; 

Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells ! 

But I, with mournful tread, 
Walk the deck my Captain lies, 
Fallen cold and dead. 

— Walt Wh it man. 



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When Lincoln Died 

When Lincoln died, a universal grief 
Went round the earth. Men loved him in that hour. 
The North her leader lost ; the South her friend ; 
The nation lost its savior ; and the slave 
Lost his deliverer, the most of all. 
O, there was sorrow 'mid the humble poor, 
When Lincoln died. 



When Lincoln died, a great soul passed from earth. 
In him were strength and gentleness so mixed 
That each upheld the other. He was firm; 
And yet was kind, as tender as a child, 
And yet as iron-willed as Hercules. 
His power was almost limitless, and yet, 
His mercy was as boundless as his power. 
And he was jovial, laughter-loving, still 
His heart was ever torn with suffering. 
There was divine compassion in the man; 
A God-like love and pity for his race. 
The world saw the full measure of that love. 
When Lincoln died 



When Lincoln died, a type was lost to men, 
The earth has had her conquerors and kings 
And many of the common great. Through all 
She had only one Lincoln. There are none 
Like him in all the annals of the past. 
He was the growth of our new soil ; the child 
Of our new time ; he was American ; 
Was of the people, from the lowest rank. 
And yet he scaled with ease the heightest heights. 
Mankind one of its few immortals lost. 
When Lincoln died. 



When Lincoln died, it seemed a providence, 

For he appeared as one sent for work. 

Whom, when that work was done, God summoned 

home. 
He led a splendid fight for liberty; 
And when the shackles fell, the land was saved. 
He laid his armor by and sought his rest. 
A glory, sent from heaven, covered him, 
When Lincoln died. 

— /. A. Edgerton. 



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FLAG SALUTE 

We give our heads, and our hearts, to God and our 

country ; 
One country, one language, one flag ! 

[Pupils to make proper gestures when reciting the salute. J 



Tribute on Lincoln from Lowell 

[An extract from the Commemoration Ode read at Harvard 
College, July 21, 1865, by James Russell Lowell. J 

Here was a type of the true elder race. 
And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face. 
I praise him not; it were too late; 
And some innative weakness there must be 
In him who condescends to victory 
Such as the present gives, and cannot wait, 

Safe in himself as in a fate. 

So always firmly he; 

He knew to bide his time. 

And can his fame abide. 
Still patient in his simple faith sublime. 

Till the wise years decide. 
Great captains, with their guns and drums, 

Disturb our judgment for the hour, 

But at last silence comes; 
These all are gone, and, standing like a tower. 

Our children shall behold his fame. 
The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man. 
Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, 
New birth of our new soil, the first American. 



Tribute on Lincoln from Bryant 

Oh, slow to smite and swift to spare. 
Gentle and merciful and just! 

Who, in the fear of God, didst bear 
The sword of power — a nation 's trust. 

In sorrow by thy bier we stand, 
Amid the awe that hushes all, 

And speak the anguish of a land 
That shook with horror at thy fall. 

Thy task is done — the bond are free; 

We bear thee to an honored grave. 
Whose noblest monument shall be 

The broken fetters of the slave. 

Pure was thy life ; its bloody close 

Hath placed thee with the sons of light, 

Among the noble host of those 

Who perished in the cause of right. 



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Extract from Henry Wattcrson's Lecture 



"From the hour Abraham Lincoln crossed the thres- 
hold of the white house to the hour he went thence to 
his tragic death, there was not a moment when he did 
not dominate the political and military situation and his 
official subordinates. The idea that he was overmatched 
at any time by anybody is contradicted by all that 
actually happened. 

"One thinks now that the world in which Lincoln lived 

might have dealt more gently by such a man. He was 

himself so gentle — so upright in nature and so broad of 

mind — so sunny and so tolerant in temper — so simple and 

so unaffected in bearing — a rugged exterior covering an 

undaunted spirit, proving by his every act and word that — 

The bravest are the tenderest, 
The loving" are the daring — 

that, though he was a party leader, he was a typical and 
patriotic American, in whom even his enemies might have 
found something to respect and admire. But it could 
not be so. He committed one grievous offense — he dared 
to think and he was not afraid to speak ; he was ahead 
of his party, ahead of his time, and men are slow to 
forgive what they cannot understand. 

"Born as lowly as the Son of God, in a hovel; of what 
ancestry we know not and care not ; reared in penury, 
squalor, with no gleam of light or fair surroundings ; 
without external graces, actual or required ; without name 
or fame or official training, it was reserved for this 
strange being, late in life to be snatched from obscurity, 
raised to supreme command at a supreme moment, and 
intrusted with the destiny of a nation. 

"The great leaders of his party, the most experienced 
and accomplished public men of the day, were made to 
stand aside, were sent to the rear, while this fantastic 
figure was led by unseen hands to the front and given 
the reins of power. It is immaterial whether we were 
for him or against him ; wholly immaterial. That during 
four years, carrying with him such a pressure of respon- 
sibility as the world never witnessed before, he filled the 
vast space allotted him in the eyes and actions of man- 
kind, is to say that he was inspired of God ; for nowhere 
else could he have acquired the wisdom and the grace 
indispensable to his mission. 

"Where did Shakespeare get his genius? Where did 
Mozart get his music ? Whose hand smote the lyre 
of the Scottish plowman and stayed the life of the 
(icrman priest? God, (jod, and God alone; and as 
surely as these were raised up by God, inspired by God, 
was Abraham Lincoln." 



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LINCOLN STORIES 



A. CHaracteristic Letter. 

Executive Mansion, October 17, 1861. 
Major Ramsey: 

My Dear Sir: — The lady — the bearer — says she has 
two sons who want to work. Set them at it, if pos- 
sible. Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it 
should be encouraged, y\ Lincoln 



A. MidnigHt Pardon. 

A congressman tried hard to have Secretary Stanton 
pardon a friend about to be shot. He failed. At mid- 
night he burst into the President's bedroom at the 
White House, exclaiming : "This man must not be 
shot, Mr. Lincoln, I cannot allow him to be shot !" 

■'Well," said the President in reply, "I do not be- 
lieve shooting will do him any good. Give me a pen," 

And so the pardon was granted. 



Passes to RicKmond. 

A gentleman called upon the President and solicited 
a pass to Richmond. 

"Well." said the President, "I would be happy to 
oblige if my passes were respected ; but the fact is, sir, 
within the past two years, 1 have given passes to two 
hundred and fifty thousand men to go to Richmond, 
and not one has got there yet." 



He Had Lost Only One Leg. 

A gentleman visiting a hospital in Washington heard 
an occupant of one of the beds laughing and talking 
about the President. He seemed to be m such good 
spirits that the gentleman remarked : 
"You must be very slightly wounded." 
"Yes," said the brave fellow, "very slightly — I have 
lost only one leg." 

A. Strong M^Hi^. 

"A year or two after Tyler's accession to the presi- 
dency," said Lincoln, "Bob Tyler asked the president 
of a railroad for a special train for the accommodation 
of his father. The railroad president, who was a 
strong Whig, refused. 

" 'What !' said Bob, 'did you not furnish a special 
train for the funeral of General Harrison ?' 

" 'Yes,' replied the railroad president, 'and if you 
will only bring your father here in that shape you shall 
have the best train on the road.' " 



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LINCOLN 



BY S. W. FURST. 

[Written on the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of 
the birth of Lincoln.] 

TUNE — "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing" 

or 

■'The Austrian National Hymn." 

Born amid the Western wildwood, reared in poverty and toil. 
Schooled by self and Nature only, drawing from his country's soil 
Knowledge, power, and religion, strength his destiny to face. — 
Lincoln, kindly, loving, gentle, stands the greatest of his race. 

Born as lowly as the Christ-child, like Him martyr for his kind. 
Can there be another Lincoln, can we such another find? 
"Never," seems to come the answer, sounding down the Halls of 

Time, 
"Lincoln, greatest of Immortals, shall remain a name sublime." 

Wi.^e beyond all human wisdom, meekest in his greatest deed. 
Giving all to aid his country in her bitter time of need; 
For his kindness, for his candor, for his charity to all, 
Ever shall our land revere him, yea, until the heavens fall! 

As the leader of the nation in the fiercest of her strife 

Bore he burdens of the millions, and he saved our country's life: 

When, with purpose strong and lofty, wiped he slavery from our 

name. 
From that instant he was given an immortal crown of fame. 

Sympathetic beyond measure, and, with all his countless cares, 
Giving heed to each petition, small as well as great affairs; 
Ever ready with assistance, helpful word or kindly deed— 
LINCOLN THE EMANCIPATOR of his fellows in their need. 

Years have passed since he was taken, since that day of darkest 

gloom. 
Yet, with future generations, we lay flowers on his tomb, 
Thinking of the martyr-hero, honoring the god-sent man 
Who, unfalt'ring, could his mission for his country's future scan. 

Now a hundred years since Lincoln came to cleanse his country's 

name, — 
Time has but increased his stature, years but added to- his fame. 
Martyred Lincoln, the immortal, hero of heroic past, 
Now is crowned with wreaths of glory, and shall live while time 

shall last! 



ABRAHAM LINCOLN 
And the Principles That Mdde Him Great. 

This Government cannot endure pcrmanenth- lialf 
slave and half free. 

Let us have faith that right makes might; and in 
that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it 

In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to 
the free. 

You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy 
the Government, while I shall have the most solemn 
one to "preserve, protect and defend" it. 

That some should be rich shows that others may Ije- 
come rich, and hence is just encouragement to independ- 
ence and enterprise. > 

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. 

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with 
firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, 
let us strive on to finish the work we are in. 

As a nation of freeman we must live through all time, 
or die by suicide. 

Suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any 
situation. 

No man is good enough to govern another man with- 
out that other's consent. 

Versatility is an injurious possession since it can never 
be greatness. 

Come what will, I will keep my faith with friend and 
foe. 

If any should be slaves, it should be, first, those who 
deeire it for themselves, and, secondly, those who de- 
sire it for others, 

Often a limb must be amputated to save a life, but a 
life is never wisely given to save a limb. 

A revelation could not make it plainer to me that 
slavery or the Government must be destroyed. 

"^ ' ' ■ •'•■^'" -" — 'irr fhctt rh p se dead shall not have 

1, shall have a 
It of the people, 
erish from the 

One copy del. to Cat. Div. 

of freedom. 

knees by the 

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settled the In- 
I will not rest 



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16 LINCOLN DAY PROGRAM 



LINCOLN 



BY S. W. FURST. 

I Written on the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of 
the birth of Lincoln.] 

TUNE — "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing" 

or 

■'The Austrian National Hymn." 

Born amid the Western wildwood, reared in poverty and toil. 
Schooled by self and Nature only, drawing from his country's soil 
Knowledge, power, and religion, strength his destiny to face, — 
Lincoln, kindly, loving, gentle, stands the greatest of his race. 

Born as lowly as the Christ-child, like Him martyr for his kind, 
Can there be another Lincoln, can we such another find? 
"Never," seems to come the answer, sounding down the Halls of 

Time, 
"Lincoln, greatest of Immortals, shall remain a name sublime." 

Wise beyond all human wisdom, meekest in his greatest deed, 
Giving all to aid his country in her bitter time of need; 
Kor his kindness, for his candor, for his charity to all. 
Ever shall our land revere him, yea, until the heavens fall! 

As the leader of the nation in the fiercest of her strife 

Bore he burdens of the millions, and he saved our country's life; 

When, with purpose strong and lofty, wiped he slavery from our 

name. 
From that instant he was given an immortal crown of fame. 

Sympathetic beyond measure, and, with all his countless cares, 
Giving heed to each petition, small as well as great affairs; 
Ever ready with assistance, helpful word or kindly deed — 
LINCOLN THE EMANCIPATOR of his fellows in their need. 

Years have passed since he was take 

gloom. 
Vet, with future generations, we la: 
Thin'icing of the martyr-hero, honori 
Who, unfalt'ring, could his mission 

Now a hundred years since Lincoln 

name, — 
Time has but increased his stature 
Martyred Lincoln, the immortal, h* 
Now is crowned with wreaths of g 

shall last! 



ABRAHAM LINCOLN 
And the Principles That Made liim Great. 

This Government cannot endure permanently half 
slave and half free. 

Let us have faith that right makes might; and in 
that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it 

In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to 
the free. 

You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy 
the Government, while I shall have the most solemn 
one to "preserve, protect and defend" it. 

That some should be rich shows that others may be- 
come rich, and hence is just encouragement to independ- 
ence and enterprise. ' 

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. 

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with 
firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, 
let us strive on to finish the work we are in. 

As a nation of freeman we must live through all time, 
or die by suicide. 

Suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any 
situation. 

No man is good enough to govern another man with- 
out that other's consent. 

Versatility is an injurious possession since it can never 
be greatness. 

Come what will, I will keep my faith with friend and 
foe. 

If any should be slaves, it should be, first, those who 
deeire it for themselves, and, secondly, those who de- 
sire it for others, 

Often a limb must be amputated to save a life, but a 
life is never wisely given to save a limb. 

A revelation could not make it plainer to me that 
slavery or the Government must be destroyed. 

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not ha\e 
ied in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a 
ew birth of freedom ; and that government of the people, 
■y the people, for the people, shall not perish from the 
arth. 

Keep the jewel of liberty in the family of freedom. 

I have been driven many times to my knees by the 
)\ erwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. 

As soon as the business of this war is settled the In- 
dians shall have my first attention, and I will not rest 
until they shall have justice. 



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THE BIRTHPLACE OF LINCOLN 



'Tis the name of martyred Lincoln 
Calls these pictures from the past, 

And that name with the immortals 
Shall endure while earth shall last. 

-BEST. 



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